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Welcome to "From Bitter Waters to Sweet"

As I walked the streets of my small midwest town praying for the people and the churches of the town, the words came to me, "Make bitter waters sweet."Those words made no sense at the time.Surely if those words actually came from God they weren't about me. I, the pastor's wife, had a life that other women in my church envied.Shortly after that, my life fell apart and the bitterness that lurked beneath the surface came to the top.But God did not leave me there. Just as He can make crooked paths straight, raise valleys, and lower mountains, so also could He make bitter waters sweet.This blog contains bits and pieces and large chunks of my ongoing journey from bitter waters to sweet.

For those who just aren't in the mood for it, that's fine. I just wanted to make it available for the sake of back-up and proof of Mark Driscoll's words to Brierley concerning Driscoll's smack down of Brierley's wife, a woman pastor. Actually, it was a smack down of all women pastors and women in general. As in, SMACK "What makes you think you can pastor, you stupid woman. Get back in the kitchen!" or some variation there of.

Mark told Brierley that, basically, the reason his wife's church was small was because she was a woman and since it was pastored by a woman there must be no strong men.

Driscoll said, "You look at your results and you look at my results and at the variable that is most obvious."

All I can think, these days, concerning Driscoll's results is how many stories of abuse are coming out concerning him and his church.

I'm pretty sure Mark doesn't want you to see these results. It's all about body count, how many warm, submissive bodies he can get into the pews. He's willing to do anything to get the numbers. It doesn't matter to him how many get trampled and thrown away in the process.

I wonder how many walking wounded and refuge blogs there are concerning Brierley's wife's church?